"Greenie" Arnold Already Working to Weaken "Climate Bill."

[NNadir]

(10-17) 04:00 PDT Sacramento -- Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez and some environmental groups charged Monday that an executive order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to sign today undermines an agreement the governor struck with Democrats on the state's landmark global warming law.

Schwarzenegger will sign an order giving the secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency the duty of overseeing parts of the law's implementation and emphasizes the development of a new market allowing companies to buy and sell greenhouse gas emissions credits.

Núñez said that the executive order gives more power to the executive branch than the law calls for and that the governor's emphasis on a market-based approach to lowering greenhouse gas emissions ignored other aspects of the law. He suggested the governor was reinterpreting the law based on proposals he had suggested to lawmakers during negotiations over the legislation this year but that had been rejected by the Legislature.

"You can't rewrite a law through executive order," said Núñez, D-Los Angeles, who carried the bill.

Note to Speaker Nunez: You can do whatever the fuck you want if you're a Repuke. "Laws? Republicans don't need no stinking laws..."

Ye Ole "Signing Statement Trick."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/17/BAG7ULQPOA1.DTL

Well that was a short lived fantasy.

He did sign the 8 quadrillion solar roofs bill though. It doesn't actually produce a solar roof, but damn if people just don't love the sound of it. Quadrillion, now that's a big number.